Across
- 2. name for cheap cloths
- 6. where Solomon Northup was living
- 7. common slave religion
- 8. trade that offered many opportunities for white men
- 11. people who held slaves
- 12. allowed a slave to remove seeds from fifty pounds of cotton a day
- 13. the seed bearing capsule that contains the cotton fiber
- 15. Crop grown in the south
- 16. A crop grown to sell rather than for the farmers sole use
- 17. the front row in field work
- 20. this began in january 1811
- 21. the law stating slaves could not marry
- 22. number of new slave states entering the Union between 1789 and 1860
- 23. large pressed squared of cotton
- 24. something the slaves would do to pass time
Down
- 1. a punishment for unfaithful slaves
- 3. a place where white men went to buy slaves
- 4. entrusted with feeding and overworking unruly slaves into submission
- 5. Maryland slave who escaped to the north in 1838
- 9. those with one black and one white parent
- 10. what happed to Solomon Northup in 1841
- 12. where most free blacks in the south lived
- 14. a crucial part of transportation
- 18. state with twelve percent of the nations banking capital
- 19. This Crop had little growth in 1787